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Funny, I instead had that reaction to nano being there after I read "good at their job." I mean, that's one way of looking at nano, I suppose, depending on how
by jsmthrowaway 10y ago
Funny, I instead had that reaction to nano being there after I read "good at their job." I mean, that's one way of looking at nano, I suppose, depending on how you define "job"...
- witty_username 10y agoYeah, nano is good for people like me used to GUI editors but it isn't amazingly good.
- glormph 10y agoI figured the poster was just avoiding naming either text editor that gives around half of the HN population kneejerk responses.
- JdeBP 10y agoBrief versus WordStar yet again? (-: This would cast nano in the rôle of Tedit, of course.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoPartly because listing emacs or vim would launch a flame war, but Nano's intent is to be a small text editor, friendly enough for newbies, to handle small jobs, like writing an email, or editing /etc/fstab. And it does that pretty well.
- jsmthrowaway 10y agoBut you listed emacs?
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoI forgot I did that. It was because Emacs is really technically impressive. It's a bit ugly in places, but on the whole, it's remarkably well designed.